> One absolutely central inconsistency ruins [the naturalistic worldview].... The whole picture professes to depend on inferences from observed facts. Unless inference is valid, the whole picture disappears.... [U]nless Reason is an absolute--all is in ruins. Yet those who ask me to believe this world picture also ask me to believe that Reason is simply the unforeseen and unintended by-product of mindless matter at one stage of its endless and aimless becoming. Here is flat contradiction. They ask me at the same moment to accept a conclusion and to discredit the only testimony on which that conclusion can be based.
Failing at reasoning makes the above paragraph even more funny.
Our human application of reason is never perfect. Even mathematical and logical truths are as useful as matter to which we apply them.
There is no need for intent in anything either. Even reasoning can be done unintentionally.
